COLLECTOR PROFILE Ray and Lori Allen of San Diego have assembled a collection of contemporary realism that got its start through Ray's long-standing love of art. In high school, he took classes in drawing and sculpture that triggered this interest, and while he was studying at Chicago's DePaul University, it wasn't uncommon for a professor to ask if anyone had seen Ray. Usually the answer came back, “He's at the Art Institute” downtown.
Today the Allens own works by such gifted artists as Richard Becker, Michael Bergt, Anna Chervonnaya, Claire DeLandro, Yuriy Dymshyts, Dan Ferguson, Geraldine Grove, Jacquline Hurlbert, Joan Irving, Lauretta Lowell, Peter Matosian, Willie McGrath, Daryl Millard, John Modesitt, Jacob A. Pfeiffer, Craig Pursley, Artem Rogowoi, Dennis Sarazhin, Jan Dorian Whitney, Will Wilson, and Jeanne Zvetina.
Ray is…
